convenience which
may be consistent with a strict guard over them."

XXVI. That, in consequence of these severities upon herself, and on
those whom she most regarded and trusted, the mother of the said Nabob
did at length consent to the delivering up of her treasures, and the
same were paid to the Resident, to the amount of the bond given by the
Nabob to the Company for his balance of the year 1779-80; and the said
treasure "was taken from the most secret recesses in the houses of the
two eunuchs."

XXVII. That the Nabob continuing still under the pressure of a further
pretended debt to the Company for his balance of the year 1780-81, the
Resident, not satisfied with the seizure of the estates and treasures of
his parents aforesaid, although he, the said Resident, did confess that
the princess mother "had declared, _with apparent truth_, that she had
delivered up _the whole of the property in her hands_, excepting goods
which from the experience which he, the Resident, had of the _small
produce_ of the sales of a former payment made by her in that mode he
did refuse, and that in his opinion it certainly would have amounted to
little or nothing," did proceed to extort another great sum of money,
that is to say, the sum of one hundred and twenty thousand pounds
sterling, on account of the last pretended balance aforesaid: in order,
therefore, to compel the said ministers and treasurers either to
distress their principals by extorting whatever valuable substance might
by any possibility remain concealed, or to furnish the said sum from
their own estates or from their credit with their friends, did order
their imprisonment to be aggravated with circumstances of great cruelty,
giving an order to Lieutenant Francis Rutledge, dated 20th January,
1782, in the following words.

XXVIII. "SIR,--When this note is delivered to you by Hoolas
Roy, I have to desire that you order the two prisoners to be put _in
irons, keeping them from all food, &c., agreeable to my instructions of
yesterday_.

(Signed) "NATH^L MIDDLETON."

XXIX. That by the said unjust and rigorous proceeding the said eunuchs
were compelled to give their engagement for the payment of one hundred
and twenty thousand pounds sterling aforesaid, to be completed within
the period of one month; but after they had entered into the said
compulsory engagement, they were still kept in close imprisonment, and
the mother and grandmother of the Nabob were themselve